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A thick resume with more than 40 creations of his authorship, starring mostly characters who survive desolation, disenchantment, abandonment and marginalization. And continue writing. At 79 years old, the Chilean playwright Juan Radrigán - one of the most relevant in the country - does not seem to get tired or stop, despite the delicate moment of health he is going through due to metastatic cancer, which has him recovering.
On September 26 and 27, two of his most emblematic texts will return to the stage with Radrigán Homenaje: a revival of his works Fantasmas drunkos and Amores de cantina, organized by a group of national actors including Claudia Di Girolamo, María Izquierdo, Rodrigo Pérez, Francisco Melo and Aliocha de la Sotta.
Radrigán's two productions will arrive at the Nescafé de las Artes Theater on September 26 and 27. First, Drunken Ghosts, from 1997, will be re-released, in the version directed by Gonzalo Pinto and starring Melo and Gabriel Cañas. The next day Amores de cantina (2000) will return to the stage, a production directed by Mariana Muñoz and with María Izquierdo and Iván Álvarez de Araya in its cast.
The idea was to make a living tribute to the 2011 National Prize for Performing and Audiovisual Arts, whose work has been compared by specialized critics with the writings of Samuel Beckett and Arthur Miller and, at the national level, with the social theater of Antonio Acevedo Hernández and Isidora Aguirre. Along with highlighting his work, the Radrigán Homenaje cycle also has a charitable purpose: the proceeds from the two performances will benefit the author of Las brutas, to pay for his cancer treatment.
In 1979, at the age of 42, the Chilean playwright wrote his first dramatic work, Testimonies of Sabina's Deaths, followed by Las brutas, El loco y la triste (1980), Facts consummates (1981) and El Toro por las astas (1982), which have become classics of national dramaturgy today. His texts talk about social marginality, linked to the political, economic and cultural context of Chile in the 70s and 80s. Radrigán was one of the first to place the marginalized of society as protagonists of his works, dispensing with large sets and making his creations in popular spaces. Several of his texts have been edited by national and foreign directors, such as Facts Accomplished (1981), brought to the stage in London, England, by the English director Robert Shaw. After a first stage marked by the social, his post-dictatorship theater led to other conflicts such as unfinished loves or loves without recipients, and ghostly characters that transit between life and death. Precisely from this last period are the works Drunk Ghosts and Cantina Loves.
Press release Fundación Teatro a mil.